This beautiful baby will need seven operations to remove giant birthmark, see how YOU can help

A seven-month-old girl will undergo extensive skin surgery to remove a large dark birthmark covering the top half of her tiny face.

Ruby Ashby is one in 500,000 children born with Congenital Melanocytic Nevus which covers the right side of her face and head.

And the tiny tot, from Towradji near Wollongong, needs seven operations to fully remove the dark, hairy mark before she starts school. The first operation costs $10,000 and takes place on January 12.

Seven-month-old Ruby Ashby (pictured left now and right at birth) will undergo seven operations to remove the giant birthmark she has had since she was born

Ruby is one in 500,000 children born with Congenital Melanocytic Nevus which covers the right side of her face and head (pictured with her brother Jackson)

The first operation costs $10,000 and takes place on January 12, the procedure includes inserting a silicone balloon and then serially inflating it with saline over a number of weeks

The procedure includes inserting a silicone balloon under her skin on a part of her body not covered by the birthmark. The balloon is then slowly inflated with saline over a number of weeks.

The part of her face covered in the birthmark will then slowly be replaced with the excess skin gained from the first procedure.

Doctors expect it will take up to seven operations to totally replace the birthmark with new skin.

When Ruby turns eight, she will have an eyebrow transplant as her right brow will have to be removed during one of the earlier surgeries.

‘Ruby is like any normal baby, she has such a happy personality and is just perfect,’ Mum Natalie told Daily Mail Australia.

‘We wouldn’t change her but it is important to have it removed before she starts school – she was born with it but it doesn’t mean she has to live with it.

‘We just want the best for her. We are hoping by the time she starts school the mark will be gone, it takes time though because we have to give time for the skin to heal between surgeries.’

Ruby will then have a skin graft and a further operation when she is eight-years-old to transplant an eyebrow which will have to be removed during one of the earlier surgeries

Parents Natalie (pictured) and Ben are hoping to raise $30,000 towards the cost of the operations and have set up a Go Fund Me page and will host a fundraising night in January

The young family have been overwhelmed with the support and money they have received so far from friends and total strangers

Their Go Fund Me page is at over $12,000 already in just a few days and the couple can’t quite believe it.

Parents Natalie and Ben are hoping to raise $30,000 towards the cost of the operations and have set up a Go Fund Me page and will host a fundraising night in January.

They have chosen to use one of the top plastic surgeons in Australia, because of the sensitivity of operating on such a young child.

The young family have been overwhelmed with the support and money they have received so far from friends and total strangers.

Their Go Fund Me page is at over $12,000 already in just a few days and the couple can’t quite believe it.

‘In the first day it was so unexpected, we were overwhelmed,’ Mrs Ashby said.

‘It has been amazing. It was set up for people who couldn’t attend out fundraising night but still wanted to donate but people have been sharing it on Facebook and we have received donations from people we don’t know and a few anonymous ones too.’

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